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18 July 1888. Robert Browning and Sarianna Browning to Fannie Browning and Robert Barrett Browning.

18 July 1888. Robert Browning and Sarianna Browning to Fannie Browning and Robert Barrett Browning.

[In RB’s hand] 29, De Vere Gardens. W.
July 18. ’88.
Dearest Pen (& dearest Fannie)
I got your letter, requiring the sale &c, on Friday night,—and early on Saturday I effected it, as I told you I would do, and wrote to apprise you the letter which I hope you duly received: when your telegram arrived on <Saturday aftern. 5.½>, all was done & over—but no inconvenience whatever resulted from having sold out at once. I directed the cheque-book to be sent you through the Bank, as the safest way—and this also, I hope, you have received. We were puzzled a little by getting, on Sunday, a telegram from Fannie to say she was starting to join you—perhaps it was on account of this transaction: I need say nothing about it now. You know how glad I am you have at last got—in this respect—the object of your ambition—and, I think, got it under the most favourable circumstances possible. All I now desire—after your continued enjoyment of health & happiness in each other’s society—is that you may in some measure seem to justify your extraordinarily good fortune by proving that you deserve it by hard work, and falsifying the ordinary notion, too often shown correct by one’s

[In RB’s hand] 29, De Vere Gardens. W.
July 18. ’88.
Dearest Pen (& dearest Fannie)
I got your letter, requiring the sale &c, on Friday night,—and early on Saturday I effected it, as I told you I would do, and wrote to apprise you the letter which I hope you duly received: when your telegram arrived on , all was done & over—but no inconvenience whatever resulted from having sold out at once. I directed the cheque-book to be sent you through the Bank, as the safest way—and this also, I hope, you have received. We were puzzled a little by getting, on Sunday, a telegram from Fannie to say she was starting to join you—perhaps it was on account of this transaction: I need say nothing about it now. You know how glad I am you have at last got—in this respect—the object of your ambition—and, I think, got it under the most favourable circumstances possible. All I now desire—after your continued enjoyment of health & happiness in each other’s society—is that you may in some measure seem to justify your extraordinarily good fortune by proving that you deserve it by hard work, and falsifying the ordinary notion, too often shown correct by one’s